We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being acutely aware of the confusion.

We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.

We cannot conceive of Oedipus without a Sphinx, nor of Hamlet without a Ghost.

We cannot truthfully say of anyone who has succeeded in entering deep into his sixties that he was never old.

We can force Britain and France out of the Suez, but we cannot so much as try to force the Russian tanks back from Budapest.

We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.

We cannot regard foreign policy as something left over after defense policy or trade policy or fiscal policy has been extracted.

We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.

We note that two such curves C and Af, cannot coincide at more than a finite number of points ; ;

We cannot now speak of maximizing the value of the objective function, since this function is now known only in a probabilistic sense.

We cannot consider ourselves educated if we do not read ; ;

We cannot, of course, assign it any substance.

We may show, first, that there cannot possibly be an alternative other than the three typically represented by Bultmann, Barth, and Buri.

We cannot take the space to record all the efforts for the removal or alleviation of collective ills.

We must yield to the divine will, he says ; we cannot pick and choose and accept only what we can understand.

We cannot possibly conceive an ' is ' except as belonging to some thing that is, or exists.

Said Romney: " We simply cannot live in a setting where a project of this scale has the potential of threatening human life, as has already been seen ".

In 1944, Jones wrote to John Walvoord of Dallas Theological Seminary that while the university had " no objection to educational work highly standardized …. We, however, cannot conscientiously let some group of educational experts or some committee of experts who may have a behavioristic or atheistic slant on education control or even influence the administrative policies of our college.

We are in an age of rearmaments, but we on this side cannot accept that position ".

We cannot define a point except as ' something with no parts ', nor blindness except as ' the absence of sight in a creature that is normally sighted '.

The words were given in response to the Latin maxim: " Ignoramus et ignorabimus " or " We do not know, we cannot know ":

We cannot tell at what date the book received its present form, since there are no clear historical allusions in it.

" We simply cannot do without auxiliary constructions ", as Theodor Fontane once said ... dwelling on imaginary wish fulfillments '.

We cannot build a water-tight theology promising physical healing, surely, for the most ' miracle-ridden ' Christian will die in the end, yielding to the natural processes of senescence.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

Singer's declaration read: " Energy is essential for economic growth ... We understand the motivation to eliminate what are perceived to be the driving forces behind a potential climate change ; but we believe the Kyoto Protocol — to curtail carbon dioxide emissions from only a part of the world community — is dangerously simplistic, quite ineffective, and economically destructive to jobs and standards-of-living.

We see this every ten or twelve years, an attempt at this, and I guess from that standpoint I don't quite understand why everybody's falling over backwards over the guy.

We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly.

We use the numbers in all our theories, but we don't understand them – what they are, or where they come from.

We can thus understand the high importance of barriers, whether of land or water, which separate our several zoological and botanical provinces.

We can thus understand the localisation of sub-genera, genera, and families ; and how it is that under different latitudes, for instance in South America, the inhabitants of the plains and mountains, of the forests, marshes, and deserts, are in so mysterious a manner linked together by affinity, and are likewise linked to the extinct beings which formerly inhabited the same continent ... On these same principles, we can understand, as I have endeavoured to show, why oceanic islands should have few inhabitants, but of these a great number should be endemic or peculiar ; ...

We can understand the necessary limits of our reflections on the subjects which are beyond our reach.

We might imagine that we understand this, but it doesn't seem like we actually do.

We were planted here before the Prophet Abraham came, but it looks like they don't understand history or geography.

We understand that shows don't want to call the writers writers because they want to maintain the illusion that it is reality, that stuff just happens.

We have also come to understand Harvey's somewhat unorthodox method of dealing with his gout, here cited completely: "... his ( Harvey's ) cure was thus: he would sit with his legs bare ... put them into a pail of water till he was almost dead with cold, then betake himself to his stove, and so ' twas gone ".

We have to study each ethnological specimen individually in its history and in its medium .... By regarding a single implement outside of its surroundings, outside of other inventions of the people to whom it belongs, and outside of other phenomena affecting that people and its productions, we cannot understand its meanings .... Our objection ... is, that classification is not explanation.

We have finally come to understand the normal process in considerable detail ; it is the same in nematode worms, fish, mice, pigs, cows, and people.

Freeman states, “ We understand Antony as a grand failure because the container of his Romanness “ dislimns ”: it can no longer outline and define him even to himself.

Sheikh Abdullah Al Ghraifi, the deputy head of the Islamic Scholars Council, gave a clear warning of the clerics ' intent: " We have at our disposition 150, 000 votes that we will forward to the MPs, and I hope that they understand this message clearly.

We do not understand Robert Frost's " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening " to be about a horse-and-wagon journey but about life.

We understand Emily Dickinson's " Because I could not stop for Death " as a poem about the end of the human life span, not a trip in a carriage.

We followed up ... and understand from the customer the situation was resolved to his satisfaction.

Simon Jeffery ( then president of LucasArts ) said that " We do not want to disappoint the many fans of Full Throttle, and hope everyone can understand how committed we are to delivering the best-quality gaming experience that we possibly can " in the official press release.

In his funeral oration, Ribbentrop described the shooting as an attack by the Jews on the German people: " We understand the challenge, and we accept it ", he said.

It stated in part " We do understand though that The Salvation Army ’ s official opposition to the Reform Bill was deeply hurtful to many, and are distressed that ill-feeling still troubles our relationship with segments of the gay community.